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Not What I Expected

So, I’m sitting in my fertility doctor’s office when I discover that becoming a single mom by choice is a fertility issue — and all my appointments are covered through OHIP. “Of course you have a fertility issue,” the doctor says, “You have a lack of sperm.” Indeed. A familiar story but choosing said sperm —… Read More »

A week after I walked the Camino, my beloved Grandmother died. Her passing at 94 years old wasn’t tragic, but she had co-parented me, and so the blow was very much like losing a parent. We had Skyped two nights before she died – it was the first time she saw me since I started… Read More »

I always knew I wanted to have a child. Always. Yet at age 38 1/2 I found myself scouring each guy I met with an emotional SOS pad, calculating whether or not he was ‘Dad material.’ It was gross. It was exhausting. For three years I never made it past the fourth date. Every birthday… Read More »